Linux-Hardware Digest #856, Volume #14 Fri, 1 Jun 01 21:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: only 16 Meg recognized while there is 64 M present (Jonas Due Vesterheden)
what TV Card to get ("Andrew J. Porwitzky")
Adapter Raid controller and Redhat (Dave Shiels)
Dlink DFE-530tx reboot problem (Alf)
Re: DataRequest - I/O error - LBA problem? (J Hayward)
Re: how to determine lan card type (John Taylor)
Re: what TV Card to get (John Taylor)
Re: 3c905cx (John Taylor)
Re: Timeout Waiting for DMA when using IDE CD Writer (David R. Heffelfinger)
Re: DLINK problem (John Taylor)
Re: udma?? (John Taylor)
Maximum CPU speed for Linux? (Bob)
fsck on dirve causes short read errors, correction? (Dave Shiels)
Re: what TV Card to get (Nuno Nunes)
Forcing RTL8139 to 10baseT-FD (Mark Carroll)
Re: lm_sensor modules intrinsic to kernel? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Maximum CPU speed for Linux? (Dances With Crows)
Re: only 16 Meg recognized while there is 64 M present (Dances With Crows)
NI5210 -16UTP Anyone? ("Vish P. Satya")
i82365 (pcmcia) stopped working in 2.4.4 (Konstantinos Agouros)
Re: WinTV BTTV driver with NO SOUND ([BeoWulf])
Re: udma?? (CraigAndBarbara)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonas Due Vesterheden)
Subject: Re: only 16 Meg recognized while there is 64 M present
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 19:16:45 GMT
In article <3b17be38$0$200$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, X wrote:
> anyone any idea ?? i think it is a BIOS option which is'nt set right for my
> linux system
> but which one ?? or which combination ???
Try passing the Lilo boot argument "mem=64m" and see if that helps...
Regards Jonas
>
> Motherboard : 5YEMA
>
> anything else? more correct info ??
> thx up front
>
>
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From: "Andrew J. Porwitzky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what TV Card to get
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 15:42:23 -0400
I'm in the process of putting together a Linux box, most likely Red Hat, and
want to put a TV in card on board.
How well do TV in cards run under Linux? What cards should I look for and /
or stay away from?
Please respond by email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks!
-Andy
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From: Dave Shiels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adapter Raid controller and Redhat
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 19:43:16 GMT
Any body have eny infor on using the adaptec ARO-1130 with
a redhat distro of any revision.
I ahve a nice (new to me) Dell precision 610 with this controller
and would like to try Redhat on it.
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From: Alf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dlink DFE-530tx reboot problem
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 20:12:22 +0000 (UTC)
I have got a problem with DFE-530tx dlink eth. card.
The card does not set up hardware nr( & does not work) when I tryed to
boot linux after w98 boot. To start properlly I have to switch off
power supply ( I don't know how to switch off "wake on LAN"
on this card).
?
best regard
Alf
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From: J Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DataRequest - I/O error - LBA problem?
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:27:24 -0700
Hello,
Phil White wrote:
<snip>
>
> ----------
> hda: Read_Intr: Status 0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest error}
> hda: Read_Intr: Error=0x40 {Uncorrectable Error}, LBAsect=474191,
> Sect=196928 end_request: I/O Error, dev 03:06, Sector 196928
> ----------
>
<snip>
I know you said you already tested it, but the only time I have ever seen
this error was right before the hard drive failed.
Regards,
Jim H
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From: John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to determine lan card type
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 20:47:14 GMT
Try *all* of the network drivers, one-by-one, under
/lib/modules/kernel-version. Run dmesg after each attempt to see if a card
was detected.
joshua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
:news:<6evR6.6974$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
:> joshua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> : Thanks for the information,
:> : What about if the NIC is an ISA interface?
:> : This is mostly my case.
:>
:> : Cheers
:> : Joshua
:>
:> Just pull the card. Look at the manufacturer and chipset number (usually
:> listed on the biggest chip or the backside of the card. Also look for a
:> card name, too. (like Intel EtherExpress, SMC EtherPower 2, etc.)
:>
:> If it looks like an noname, try the NE2000 driver. If it is an SMC card,
:> with jumpers, you have to go into your BIOS setup and reserve the IRQ, and
:> IO-address space for the card. A 10/100 PCI card can be bought for $25 or
:> so and may be easier in the long run.
:>
:> Pulling the card is ~20 minutes of work, guaranteed. Trying to do it in
:> software, could take you only 2 minutes, but also could take you 30 minutes,
:> and you might end up having to pull the card anyway :-)
: Sorry I didn't provide the details,
: I installed Red Hat 7.0 for my colleague, he need to work out an old Pentium 133 PC
: This a very special 'industrial realtime comtrol" ( with Big chips from "ALi" GPIBs
:SCSIs,,,,),
: VGA onboard and NIC on board.
: But for some season, we just can't remove the parts to 'see' the onboard NIC.
: Joshua
--
John Taylor
Reply to:
john
at
giffords dot net
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From: John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what TV Card to get
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 20:50:54 GMT
Andrew J. Porwitzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'm in the process of putting together a Linux box, most likely Red Hat, and
: want to put a TV in card on board.
: How well do TV in cards run under Linux? What cards should I look for and /
: or stay away from?
: Please respond by email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Thanks!
: -Andy
You want to get Hauppage WinTV card. It uses the bttv driver, which, by
far, is the best supported chip set under linux.
See http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/v4l.shtml for more info.
--
John Taylor
Reply to:
john
at
giffords dot net
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From: John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c905cx
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 20:58:48 GMT
Andrey Shcherbina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi,
: Could you please guyz help me installing 3Com 3c905cx NIC. I have the
: drivers sources downloaded from 3Com site and I can't compile them because
: of multiple error messages. Those drivers are tested on kernels 2.2.12 and
: 2.2.5 but mine is Debian 2.2.18pre21. Could that be the problem?
: I also tried 3c59x drivers. They install OK and I can ping the card on
: static IP address which I provided, but I can't ping anything else on the
: network. Is this a driver problem or there's something else I could try?
: I used Realtek card on this box before, but it's a 10Mb card. Now I connect
: the Debian box to 100Mb hub and I run Snort. Can you tell me, will a 10Mb
: NIC in promiscuous mode see those IP packets that travel between two 100Mb
: nodes?
: Thank you,
: Andrey
Linux 2.2.18 (and variants) contain a driver for this card. Go to
/usr/src/linux and run make menuconfig. From here, you can add support for
this card.
As an alternative, try a driver from
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html. This file is a drop-in
replacement for the file with the exact same name in your kernel source
distribution.
As far as connectivity goes, if you kept the same IP information that you
had with the Realtek card, the 3com card should just be a drop-in
replacement.
--
John Taylor
Reply to:
john
at
giffords dot net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David R. Heffelfinger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Timeout Waiting for DMA when using IDE CD Writer
Date: 1 Jun 2001 14:01:21 -0700
That is actually the configuration I had, but I changed it following
the suggestions for cdrecord at:
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/man/README/README.ATAPI
After I swaped my cdrom writer to be a slave on ide0, I got the dma
error.
According to the above mentioned document, I cannot copy from CD to CD
if the CDR and CD Writer are on the same IDE interface.
Now the question is which is the lesser evil, lose performance on the
hard drive or not being able to copy from CD to CD.
Since my first hard drive has only a Win 98 partition, I would rather
lose performance on it and be able to copy from CD to CD.
David
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt) wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> On Fri, 01 Jun 2001, David R. Heffelfinger
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am using Mandrake 8, I have a Maxtor IDE Hard Drive as my primary
> > master, and an HP 9300 IDE cd writer (using SCSI emulation) as my primary slave.
> >
> > When I boot DMA is disabled on my primary hard drive.
>
> I have always found that it works best to put any removable drives AFTER
> any hard drives. But that was from the time when older BIOS could not see
> cdrom devices and would move hard drives down in the drive order to what
> it thought was a vacant slot. You might try swapping your 2nd hard drive
> and cdwriter to see if that helps. Then both hard drives could use DMA on
> ide0. And if either your cdriter or cdrom on ide1 do not support DMA, it
> would not affect your faster hard drives.
>
> For example my hdc on one box did not seem like using DMA for any period
> of time. But I don't know if that was because it was an old drive or due
> to the old cdrom that shared that channel.
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From: John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DLINK problem
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 21:01:56 GMT
Eric Lebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have two D-LINK DFE-530TX one is REV A1 (which work fine
: with the
: via_rhine) and one is REV A3 (doesn't seem to work)
: I use kernel release 2.2.18.
: Any Idea?
: --
: Eric
: http://www.IRO.UMontreal.CA/~lebeleri
See http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04644.html
This seems so have an answer to this problem. In short, you may have to
upgrade to a 2.4 kernel.
--
John Taylor
Reply to:
john
at
giffords dot net
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From: John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: udma??
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 21:14:53 GMT
It sounds like your partition table on your boot disk (/dev/hda) may have
gotten corrupted. If this is the case, you may have to reinstall if you do
not remember the partition number assignments. If you wrote them down, you
can boot from a cdrom in rescue mode, and rerun fdisk and write the correct
settings. If you want to get fancy, you can add a boot message to lilo. In
my lilo boot message, I have the out put of fdisk -l, which displays the
partition tables on all disks.
If you have a choice, I'd recommend installing Redhat 7.1 or Mandrake 8.0.
Both of these distributions have patches applied to the kernel to take
advantage of UDMA controllers. It can make a big difference in performance, too.
CraigAndBarbara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hello All:
: I just purchased a computer with an onboard UDMA controller 33/66/100 AMR P6ISA-II
:with a 40G HD. I am new to Linux and I think this is a hardware problem so please
:excuse
: my question if this is off topic for this newsgroup.
: When I try to install RH 6.1 from the installation disc ( syslinux 1.45. )
: I get this error:
: An error occurred reading the partition table for the block device hda: The error
:was no such file or directory.
: and sometimes it says:
: The error was success.
: The next error screen says
: An error has occurred no valid devices were found on which to create new filesystem.
:Please check your hardware for the cause of the problem.
: I have noticed that kernels 2.?? can read onboard udma. If the installation disc says
: syslinux 1.45 is that kernel version 1.45?
: Should I upgrade to RH 7.1 which would have a more current kernel version which may
:be able to use udma?
: Many Thanks
: Craig
--
John Taylor
Reply to:
john
at
giffords dot net
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From: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Maximum CPU speed for Linux?
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 17:59:53 -0400
Is there a maximum CPU speed that Linux can handle?
Is the answer different if the system is a dual-processor system?
Thanks
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From: Dave Shiels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fsck on dirve causes short read errors, correction?
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 22:10:17 GMT
I have an IDE drive that gives a short read error on inode scan,
Anything I can do to correct this short of reformat?
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From: Nuno Nunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what TV Card to get
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 23:26:14 +0100
Andrew J. Porwitzky, em Friday 01 June 2001 20:42, na
<9f8r5p$dtcm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escrabinhou:
> I'm in the process of putting together a Linux box, most likely Red Hat,
> and want to put a TV in card on board.
> How well do TV in cards run under Linux? What cards should I look for and
> / or stay away from?
> Please respond by email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thanks!
> -Andy
Hi,
Zoltrix Genie Tv (bt878) works nice (tv and radio) BUT the remote doesn't
word with LIRC.
Stay away from this one.
Cya,
Nuno Nunes
P.S. - Post here, read here.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Carroll)
Subject: Forcing RTL8139 to 10baseT-FD
Date: 1 Jun 2001 22:40:22 GMT
I was having cable modem problems (packet loss) and my ISP has told me
to try forcing my ethernet card to 10baseT full duplex mode. The cable
modem's attached to my RTL8139 card on eth1.
I can't work out how to set this, though. "mii-diag -F 10baseT-FD
eth1" says,
Setting the speed to "fixed", Control register 0100.
Basic registers of MII PHY #32: 0100 780d 0000 0000 0441 0000 0000 0000.
Basic mode control register 0x0100: Auto-negotiation disabled, with
Speed fixed at 10 mbps, full-duplex.
which is nice, but before and after rebooting "rtl8139-diag -mm" says,
Basic mode control register 0x0000: Auto-negotiation disabled!
Speed fixed at 10 mbps, half-duplex.
Using -A instead of -F doesn't help, and "rtl8139-diag -w -F
10baseT-FD eth1" says nothing at all about writing to the
EEPROM. "mii-diag eth1" does say,
Your link partner advertised 41e1: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD
10baseT.
Help! (-: How do I force my RTL8139 to 10baseT-FD? I'm finding these
diagnostic tools deeply confusing.
-- Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: lm_sensor modules intrinsic to kernel?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 01 Jun 2001 23:41:52 GMT
On Thu, 31 May 2001 22:44:28 -0700, Steve Snyder staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>Are the lm_sensor modules now intrinsic to the v2.4.x kernel or is this
>a patch applied to the kernel distributed by RedHat?
The lm_sensors stuff has never been part of the official kernel. RedHat
included the modules with their distro kernels as an added bonus.
Expanded i2c support used to be part of the lm_sensors package, but in
the 2.4 series, i2c support is part of the standard kernel.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Maximum CPU speed for Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 02 Jun 2001 00:13:06 GMT
On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 17:59:53 -0400, Bob staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
>Is there a maximum CPU speed that Linux can handle?
>Is the answer different if the system is a dual-processor system?
The maximum CPU speed depends on the supporting hardware. If you
overclock a 486 to 200MHz, then Linux will run quite happily on it, at
least until the CPU itself or the motherboard components succumb to
hardware failure. Linux will also run on the bare metal of an S/390,
which is far faster than anything you're likely to have lying around the
house, and people have successfully run Linux on 1.3GHz Athlons and
1.7GHz P4s.
If the motherboard supports dual Athlons at 1.3GHz, Linux can run on it.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: only 16 Meg recognized while there is 64 M present
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 02 Jun 2001 00:13:05 GMT
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 18:12:20 +0200, X staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
>anyone any idea ?? i think it is a BIOS option which is'nt set right
>for my linux system but which one ?? or which combination ???
>
>Motherboard : 5YEMA
>anything else? more correct info ??
What the other poster said about "mem=64M". ALso, check if there's a
BIOS option called "Memory hole..." and make sure this is set to "NO".
This option should only be set to "Yes" if you have certain types of
ancient ISA hardware attached.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "Vish P. Satya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NI5210 -16UTP Anyone?
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:43:28 -0700
Anyone has any experience with Racal-interlan NI5210-16UTP cards (ancient)?
I am trying to make them work but been unsuccessful! I configured with IOB
address, MB address, IRQ it is picking up and I see its TX but no RX.
Few Issues I am trying to resolve:
1). The link light also doesnt come on?
2). I can see it ping itself OK. But pinging other machines is unsuccessful,
though TX/RX lights do flash when pinging other machines.
3). IRQ's are limited to only 6 from 2-7. Checked the documentation IOBA is
from 200h-3f8h. MBA is D0000h-D4000h. Tried with all the IRQ's but no luck!
Can anyone shed some light on it and make it little easier for me. Would
great appreciate your help!
Thanks for any headsup!
Satya
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konstantinos Agouros)
Subject: i82365 (pcmcia) stopped working in 2.4.4
Date: 2 Jun 2001 01:41:10 +0200
Hi,
I have an Omnibook6000 and beginning with 2.4.4 (also in 2.4.5) the i82365
and thus the ds module can't be loaded any more. Somebody has an idea about
this?
Konstantin
--
Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185
============================================================================
"Captain, this ship will not sustain the forming of the cosmos." B'Elana Torres
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From: [BeoWulf] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WinTV BTTV driver with NO SOUND
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 00:43:56 GMT
As I glanced into the mist, I noticed the sound of a whispering voice. I=
t=20
appeared to be originating from the whereabouts of John McCabe, and the=20
voice seemed to be saying :
> I've a similar weird problem with the WinTV PVR.... When I leave the
> machine off overnight and then boot up into Mandrake 8.0 there is no
> sound, there isn't even a volume control in either Zapping or Xawtv..
>=20
> The only way to get it back is to shutdown the system, boot into window=
,
> run the TV there, then reboot back into Mandrake and the sound now work=
s..
> Bloody weird.
>=20
> /John
=20
Just a general comment here. It has come to my attention that rebooting=20
(even a hardware reset) does *not* entirely reset the computer to cold bo=
ot=20
status. There may be some information remaining in the CPU registers=20
and/or other circuits. This seems to be a trade of the latest generation=
=20
of hardware... [1] Presumably has to do with the reset function of the=20
BIOS. On older computers, a hardware reset would actually interrupt the=20
power supply for a short period of time. Maybe this is still the case, b=
ut=20
nevertheless it seems as if some 'ghostly residu' is left behind... =20
Weird...! <scratch scratch>
[1] On modern computers, many of the circuits operate on lower voltage,=20
which makes the difference in current between the I and 0 binary states=20
smaller. Maybe this is what causes the 'contamination'? It's definitely=
a=20
hardware thing, that much I can tell you.
--=20
With sincere regards,
[BeoWulf].
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From: CraigAndBarbara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: udma??
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 18:26:23 -0700
John:
I upgraded to RH 7.1 and booted from the CD-Rom. At some point it gave me basically
the same error but gave the option of initializing the drive. After I did that
everything
went very smooth.
Thanks for the advice.
Craig
John Taylor wrote:
> It sounds like your partition table on your boot disk (/dev/hda) may have
> gotten corrupted. If this is the case, you may have to reinstall if you do
> not remember the partition number assignments. If you wrote them down, you
> can boot from a cdrom in rescue mode, and rerun fdisk and write the correct
> settings. If you want to get fancy, you can add a boot message to lilo. In
> my lilo boot message, I have the out put of fdisk -l, which displays the
> partition tables on all disks.
>
> If you have a choice, I'd recommend installing Redhat 7.1 or Mandrake 8.0.
> Both of these distributions have patches applied to the kernel to take
> advantage of UDMA controllers. It can make a big difference in performance, too.
>
> CraigAndBarbara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Hello All:
>
> : I just purchased a computer with an onboard UDMA controller 33/66/100 AMR P6ISA-II
>with a 40G HD. I am new to Linux and I think this is a hardware problem so please
>excuse
> : my question if this is off topic for this newsgroup.
>
> : When I try to install RH 6.1 from the installation disc ( syslinux 1.45. )
> : I get this error:
>
> : An error occurred reading the partition table for the block device hda: The error
>was no such file or directory.
>
> : and sometimes it says:
> : The error was success.
>
> : The next error screen says
>
> : An error has occurred no valid devices were found on which to create new
>filesystem. Please check your hardware for the cause of the problem.
>
> : I have noticed that kernels 2.?? can read onboard udma. If the installation disc
>says
> : syslinux 1.45 is that kernel version 1.45?
>
> : Should I upgrade to RH 7.1 which would have a more current kernel version which
>may be able to use udma?
>
> : Many Thanks
> : Craig
>
> --
>
> John Taylor
>
> Reply to:
> john
> at
> giffords dot net
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